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Senentxu Lanceros-Mendez is the BCMaterials new Scientific Director

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Senentxu Lanceros-Mendez
Tuesday, 2/6/2018
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Senentxu Lanceros-Mendez
Professor Senentxu Lanceros-Mendez, from the Department of Physics of the University of Minho (on leave), has been nominated Scientific Director of BCMaterials, Basque Center on Materials, Applications and Nanostructures, Leioa, Spain, (www.bcmaterials.net). BCMaterials is an autonomous research center launched in June 2012 by Ikerbasque, the Basque Foundation for Science and the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) as a research center for Materials, Applications and Nanostructures. The center is included in the BERC’s (Basque excellence Research Centers) network and his mission is to develop high-quality interdisciplinary research in multifunctional and active Materials with advanced Mechanical, Thermal, Electric, Magnetic and Optical properties; from basic to applications.

S. Lanceros-Mendez graduated in physics at the University of the Basque Country, Leioa, Spain. He obtained his Ph.D. degree at the Institute of Physics of the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Germany. He was Research Scholar at Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, USA and has been visiting scientist at the Pennsylvania State University, USA and University of Potsdam, Germany, among others. From 1998 he has been at the Physics Department of the School of Sciences of the University of Minho, Portugal, where he is Associate Professor (now, on leave). From 2012 to 2014 he was also Associate Researcher at the INL – International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory. In January 2016 he joined the BCMaterials, Basque Center for Materials, Applications and Nanostructures, where he is Research Professor and Scientific Director.

Prof. Senentxu Lanceros-Mendez has been working at the University of Minho in developing smart and multifunctional materials for sensors and actuators, energy and biomedical applications. He has over 400 indexed publications in the field, 12 book chapters, 3 edited books, 9 patents, has published 7 topical reviews and has given over 40 invited talks in major conferences, seminars and workshops. He has participated in over 40 European, national and regional R&D projects and works closely with national and international companies as well as technology centres in applied projects and technology transfer. Three spin-off companies have been developed from technologies developed in his group. More than 160 students have obtained expertise/ degree under his supervision, including post-doctoral fellows (over 18), PhDs (over 28), masters (over 120) and undergraduate degrees.

+Info: www.bcmaterials.net/people-list/senentxu-lanceros-mendez
www.bcmaterials.net/bcmaterials-new-scientific-director, www.fisica.uminho.pt

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